How much do you bother to use : and ;?

[Mitera Nikkou]

I think I know what this stream of consciousness is, but I can't recall it very well. Last time that I came across one, I remember there being a lack of details that would have done the story good. Details from other perspectives.

[Anamnesis]

Understood and agreed. Though, I lack a large amount of experience on this matter, and, the times when I CAN read, are the t imes when nothing is pen to borrow a book... ><
Forays into oddity can be explained easily, but, missing punctuation can take the average reader to absolute confusion, more or less repelling them from said text.

[Mistress Guendolen]

On that last statement I wholeheartedly agree. Missing puctuation really sets me off. Oddities, I'm fine with. But dag nab it, gimmie my commas and periods and other seasonings of grammar!

[Anamnesis]

Mmhmm. School starts on the tenth for me; The perfect opportunity will soon arise! I shall become...employed!
Of course, adding punctuation to stream of consciousness might change it into something else; Which could, in fact, make it more confusing than it already is...

[Daffodil Aura]

A job in proofing might be good.... If people took the advise. A few years back, I did some volunteer proofing/editing for some of the stuff submitted here and elsewhere - mostly with Griever's stuff, and a little for Jay/Jei, but.... People got busy, I got busy, and things went by the wayside...

[Aaron]

I'm a writer, so I use them when the rules state. In my case, this means the semicolon is never used if it can be avoided and the colon is very, very rare.

[Cow Belle]

I use these as Emoticons from time to time.

^^;

:p

;p

See them doing there jobs. ^_^

However, in writing I don't use them all the much unless I need to.

*feels the wraith of the english majors upon me*

[Beyond]

Beyond is the bane of english majors.

Along with Miyuki, the final doom.

I barely use ";", its not that friendly with me... ;___;

[Raleigh]

Interesting. Stream of conciousness I find quite useful when I am in my planning sessions. Sadly when I write this way everything comes out in a present tense run on statement. I have to go back over it about 3 times to make it readable to a general person. I used to actually have a editor that could help do that because I tend to forget some detailing work that is needed even on 3 runs over the product. Nikkou, I believe that Guendolen is right on trying to use that. It might help make the writing easier.

[Mitera Nikkou]

Maybe. I'm, at the very least, decent using other perspectives. I can probably be decent at stream of consciousness as well. It's just some punctuation (like the colon and semi-colon) that I'm unsure of. I may check wikipedia later and see what that place has... XD

And thanks to Aura, I now know what an ellipsis is. I hadn't realized that I made sport of that one as well. ^_^;

Another thing that I wonder about, are paragraphs. Though I'm sure that I'm not all that good with paragraphs... If a paragraph were a house, I'd call it a shoddy two-bedroom with a few habitation laws broken (or nearly so).

Hmmmm... I guess it's a good thing that this is my topic. It's very rare that I ever care if one were to dare to get into my hair with an off-topic flare.

...

Wow. I got in my rhymes with a pun and a reference to Michael Jackson. FEAR ME. U_U

[SweetSophia]

Punctuation is the foundation of our sentences....well, beyond words....and letters....and not factoring in the arabic symbols most current languages I know are based on, but after that, punctuation marks are the keys to the kingdom. Believe in the power of ":"! Fight for ";" with all your heart!

[Helel]

I use colons and semi colons when it's appropriate.

[Mistress Guendolen]

See, I'm lucky with my job, in that they let me change anything I want. Theres a problem with a letter, I just go and fix it directly. I have the power. So there's no worries about people not "taking advice" there.

A job in proofing might be good.... If people took the advise. A few years back, I did some volunteer proofing/editing for some of the stuff submitted here and elsewhere - mostly with Griever's stuff, and a little for Jay/Jei, but.... People got busy, I got busy, and things went by the wayside...

[Sensei Kimiko]

I tend to use colons a lot more than semi colons for a number of reasons:

Colons are useful for bulleted lists
I rarely make a sentence that needs a semicolon
Colons are just cuter.

[Mitera Nikkou]

Colons also make poo gas possible, right?